Hello again. I’m back. For now. I stopped blogging because I ran out of things to write about. The upside of not taking many risks and not traveling much is a fairly stress-free and safe life. The downside is that you don’t have anything interesting to write on a blog about yourself. I briefly considered doing book reviews and stuff like that - but I think there are enough better qualified people out there who are already doing that. Another reason for my silence is some major changes in my lifestyle and beliefs. I am now a vegan and an atheist. Both changes happened gradually and were challenging in different ways. I might talk about them in future posts, but the purpose of this post is something else. I’m interning at CMU this summer. It’s day two of my trip and I already have anecdotes to share. I write this post from my room in an attic in Pittsburgh. It just stopped raining, and the cool breeze from the window next to me carries in the scent of ...